Re: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy...I'd love you to give us some feedback

2006-07-18 Thread Phil Winstanley
Title: Re: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy...I'd love you to give us some feedback Hi all, This is my first post to the list but I have enjoyed this thread so wanted to contribute. Im an ASP.NET developer and Im heavily involved with the Microsoft Development

Re: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy...I'd love you to give us some feedback

2006-07-19 Thread Phil Winstanley
Title: Re: [backstage] Web2.0 - tennets, rules, development philosophy...I'd love you to give us some feedback Kim, I was sitting in a meeting at Microsoft a few months ago when someone from Redmond used the BBCs site to explain RSS to a bunch of other Microsoft people that page is the

RE: [backstage] Finally, that bloody BBC Weather feed - here it is...

2006-07-27 Thread Phil Winstanley
This is cool. I wrote a little C# app which iterates through the Id's (counting up), grabs the XML from the BBC where it can, then looks up the locations long and lat from google (where it can). Then it stuffs the lot into a table. (Just replace YourGoogleMapsAPIKey and YourConnectionString) to

RE: [backstage] Google Maps Geniusness

2006-08-08 Thread Phil Winstanley
I started playing with a PDA and some Servos a while ago Remote Control Plane Pocket PC Phone/PDA (XDA Exec) GPS Module Servo controller Bit of code to control the servos and listen to instructions You could have your own drone aircraft for £1000

RE: [backstage] Official BBC Weather feeds ahoy!

2006-10-20 Thread Phil Winstanley
Michael, I knocked together some C# to give us a list. Heres the list: - http://www.myservicescentral.com/Temp/bbcfeed.csv Cheers, Phil. using System; using System.Xml; namespace BBCWeather { class Program { static void

RE: [backstage] Official BBC Weather feeds ahoy!

2006-10-24 Thread Phil Winstanley
http://www.myservicescentral.com/Temp/bbcfeed.csv http://mike260.dyndns.org/~mikef/countries.opml -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth Sent: 19 October 2006 18:18 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage]

RE: [backstage] Announcement: gTraffic.info v2.0

2006-11-03 Thread Phil Winstanley
That's cool, where are you getting the traffic data from? Thanks, Phil. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alistair Sent: 03 November 2006 13:34 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Announcement: gTraffic.info v2.0 I was

[backstage] Vista, Office and Exchange LAunch - Manchester - Tomorrow

2007-01-23 Thread Phil Winstanley
http://www.manchesterdda.com/article/156/ If you're about in Manchester tomorrow it will be worth registering for this event, should give a good overview of what's coming up in the next release of Windows and Office. Cheers, Phil.

RE: [backstage] EMI 'in no DRM deal'

2007-04-02 Thread Phil Winstanley
The increased price is paying for the perceived increase in risk to the copyright holder and to ensure that there's a choice which could potentially prove the demand for non DRM music is low (statistically). IMHO. Phil. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [backstage] Blogging about iPlayer

2007-05-29 Thread Phil Winstanley
Christopher, Rule of thumb, if something is already available on the web somewhere it's deemed to be in the public domain from a legal perspective. That doesn't mean you ethically SHOULD talk about something or that you can't upset anyone, just that people would have a hard time

RE: [backstage] Microsoft TV - Live!

2007-07-09 Thread Phil Winstanley
If it's Silverlight it will work fine on a Mac. Phil. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Woods Sent: 06 July 2007 09:19 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: RE: [backstage] Microsoft TV - Live! Applied... Symbolic irony? The woman in the

[backstage] Geek Dinner - London Tomorrow

2007-07-23 Thread Phil Winstanley
Guys, Thought this might interest some of you: - Http://www.Zimakki.Com/wiki/24thjuly07geekdinner.Ashx Cheers, Phil. This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for

[backstage] MIX UK - registration open

2007-07-25 Thread Phil Winstanley
We've opened the registration for MIX UK. http://www.microsoft.com/uk/mix07/ We're pretty sure it will sell out in a few days, so if you want to attend it might be better to register before too long. Cheers, Phil.

[backstage] iPlayer Today?

2007-07-27 Thread Phil Winstanley
Any idea what time it'll be available? This press release [1] says it'll be available from here on the 27th: - http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer Cheers, Phil. [1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/06_june/27/i player.shtml

RE: [backstage] resize, rotate and move multiple video files while they are playing...

2007-08-30 Thread Phil Winstanley
Here's a silverlight implementation from some months ago: - http://silverlight.net/samples/1.1/SilverlightSurface/Run/default.html -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mr I Forrester Sent: 29 August 2007 11:59 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk